Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Urban Housing in Nigeria: Evidence from Ogun State

public-private partnerships (ppps) in urban housing in nigeria: evidence from ogun state

there is a consensus among housing experts and policy makers that there are not enough resources for government alone to address growing urban housing challenges in many developing countries. consequently, a paradigm shift from government provision to partnerships between the public and private sectors is advocated. this study examined the prospects and challenges of public-private partnerships...

Development of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in China

There is no hard and fast definition of public private partnerships. One way that PPPs may be defined is as the partnerships between the public sector and the private sector for the purposes of designing, planning, financing, constructing and/or operating projects which would have been regarded traditionally as being within the remit of the public sector. PPPs take many forms. Examples include ...

Conceptual Issues in Defining Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

This article aims to explore the conceptual issues associated with defining Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). There are different definitions for PPPs in the literature on the subject. PPPs are viewed from different angles. These include as a way of managing and governing organisations, as an institutional arrangement for financial relationship, as a development strategy, and also as a langua...

Public-Private Partnerships in Urban Economic Development

Evaluation of Public Servants’ Acceptability of Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for Low-Income Public Servants in Akure, Nigeria

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

Sustainability and Free Education Policy: An Examination of Public Secondary Schools in Ogun State, Nigeria.

The study examined whether education should be free or not among the public secondary school teachers in Ogun State in Nigeria. The study examined the status of the secondary schools in terms of funding available to public secondary schools in Ogun State. The study applied Structural Functionalist theory and adopted qualitative method of data collection. Five (5) Key Informant Interviews (KII) ...